Fights in hockey used to be a way to protect skill players from cheap shots and rough play, but the NHL has improved its rules regarding such actions. Fights now seem to happen as much out of boredom as anything else. I would like to see the NHL work harder to eliminate it from the game completely, but it seems as if the sport is already moving in that direction.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
